Another New Year

2007 came and went with some pretty interesting content. Some sad, some bizarre, some good, some mundane, and some just downright wrong. The usual showcase of just when we’ve think we have seen it all……

But so went 2007 and we should leave it at 2007. If you are reading this, thank your God for one blessing, you lived another year.

And a good start to the new year would be not to waste any energy that can be applied to 2008 dissecting 2007. I think we all should assess our accomplishments of the pass year be proud of them and focus on some concrete goals for the upcoming year. The things we fell short on, if they are worth pursuing, decide what we need to do to make them work. Outside of that, throw the trash out and get on with it.

Make it a break out year. Clean up any loose strings, detach yourself from restraining baggage that’s not adding any value to your life and set your sights on enhanced self development aimed at improving your quality of life. It’s not too late to achieve that dream you have been claiming you couldn’t have. Self defeatist never achieve any thing but what’s given to them, and nobody gives you anything.

Draw your own map, don’t concern yourself with the path others are taking. You have to live and answer for your own choices and decisions so make the ones that beneficial to you. Be considerate of others but concerned with yourself.

Take an inventory of what’s left in your life’s stockroom from the previous year. here are some ticklers to get you started. I would suggest answering these question on a piece of paper and investigating your honest answers. If you find you have made the strides you planned map out how to keep the momentum going. If you find you have been marinating in excuses and self constructed obstacles, map out how you plan to jump into the frying pan and get things cooking.

Are the current contents helping you achieve your life’s mission or hurting?
Are some of your dreams gathering dust on last years shelves?
What have you tucked away in the drawers of your mind to avoid dealing with?
How have you improved yourself in a year?
What do you want most to accomplish this year and why?
Do you have a list of goals written for this year? If not why? Don’t you want anything?
How do you plan on achieving the things you want most and are you working toward them?
Where do you see yourself next year this time?
Are you capitalizing on what you do best?
What’s on that shelf that has little or no value to your quality of life?

I have a philosophy when it comes to challenges and all my teammates hear it the day they join the team.
” Any laid back soul with no ambition can submit a million reasons why something won’t work, I’m looking for that firm believer that submits one reason why it will work.” That’s what will get you where you want to go, entertaining why it can be done when presented with challenges as opposed to submitting to why it won’t. Take the will option an build on it and you find things falling in line.

And use reverse engineering when solving a problem, children do it all the time. Keep asking yourself why until you can’t answer any more….the answer to that why before the one you could not answer is your starting point, your one in many reasons why it will work.

The only thing stopping you is you. Think about it.